Hey, everybody. It is July. We at Search Engine are taking the month to refresh and to start to think about some new stories.

But in the meantime, we are rebroadcasting some of our absolute favorite episodes from earlier in our run.

This week, we have part two of our two-part story about prescription stimulants.

This two-parter, I think of the work we've done,

it might be the thing I'm proud of stuff.

If it's not, it's certainly up there.

In this story, we worked very hard

to try to say something thoughtful

about a topic that is both very complicated

and very personal.

I hope we got there.

Okay, here's part two, after some ads.

Music there. Okay, here's part two after some ads. So last week we shared an episode where I was asking a question I had about my own life.

Why did I take all these drugs, Adderall, Vivance, Concerta, Ritalin, for 20 years of my life? I'd never known the story of how those stimulants were invented and marketed,

the story of all the different people who had taken them for different reasons before our modern

era, in which now their largest market is kids who struggle in school.

When we made the first part of the story, I really only had one listener in mind,

a person I knew would never hear it. Myself, in the past,

someone who had a straightforward, mostly unquestioning relationship to stimulants.

A bit of a zealot, honestly. I wanted to make a story

that if I had heard it, might have wobbled me out of my certainty. After we published the story,

I got a lot of emails, thoughtful, detailed ones, stories from people who take these drugs but

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